West and Southern Africa
Early Cretaceous syn-rift petroleum systems in the central sector of the West African margin are an important economic resource comprising lacustrine source rocks, enigmatic carbonate reservoirs and an evaporitic seal. Mid Cretaceous and younger post-rift petroleum systems around the whole of the West and southern Africa margin are dominated by siliciclastic turbidite and contourite systems, sourced and sealed by marine mudstones and, where underlain by evaporites, affected by halokinesis.
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Most Recent Reports
- Palaeoecology, taphonomy and diagenesis of Early Jurassic shell accumulations in Lake Sichuan, China, and their implications for Pre-Salt reservoirs in the South Atlantic
- Early Jurassic coquinas from Lake Sichuan, China – a depositional analogue for Cretaceous Pre-Salt reservoirs in the South Atlantic?
- Basement control on Gondwana continental break-up in South Africa: Significance for the rifting of the South Atlantic
- Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Permian of the Falkland Islands: Lithostratigraphic and Palaeoenvironmental links with South Africa
- Sand supply to the West African margin: An integrated GIS study